2004 Bader Award Lecture Metal-ion-catalyzed Acyl and Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions to Alcohols: La3+-Promoted Alcoholysis of Activated Amides, Carboxylates Esters, and Neutral Organophosphorus Esters

ChemInform ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Stan Brown ◽  
Alexei A. Neverov ◽  
Josephine S. W. Tsang ◽  
Graham T. T. Gibson ◽  
Pedro J. Montoya-Pelaez
1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (18) ◽  
pp. 2024-2055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Sträter ◽  
William N. Lipscomb ◽  
Thomas Klabunde ◽  
Bernt Krebs

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (12) ◽  
pp. 1791-1805 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Stan Brown ◽  
Alexei A Neverov ◽  
Josephine SW Tsang ◽  
Graham TT Gibson ◽  
Pedro J Montoya-Pelaez

Unlike metal-ion-catalyzed hydrolysis processes, metal-ion-catalyzed methanolysis processes have received scant attention in the literature particularly from the standpoint of mechanistic studies. La3+, introduced into methanol solution as its triflate or perchlorate salt, is particularly effective in promoting methanolysis reactions of unactivated and activated esters, phosphate triesters, and activated amides such as acetyl imidazoles and lactams. Studies of the kinetics of methanolysis of these substrates as a function of solution pH and [La3+] indicate that the solution comprises lanthanum dimers with one to five associated methoxides (La23+(–OCH3)1–5), the most catalytically active form being La23+(–OCH3)2, which is produced at near neutral pH in methanol (8.4). Mechanisms for all the acyl and phosphoryl transfer reactions are proposed where the metal ion serves a dual role of acting as a Lewis acid to activate the C=O or P=O system to nucleophilic attack by a metal-coordinated methoxide nucleophile. In cases where direct comparisons can be made, the La23+ catalyst system is more active for the methanolysis of nonactivated substrates than for activated substrates. Another general characteristic of this system is that the catalytic rate constant for the metal complex exceeds the second-order rate constant for free methoxide, in some cases by as much as 4600-fold. Overall the catalytic effects exhibited by the La23+ system is spectacular for such substrates as paraoxon, where as little as 2 mmol L–1 La(OTf)3 in the presence of equimolar NaOCH3 accelerates the methanolysis by 109-fold relative to the background reaction at neutral pH and ambient temperature.Key words: kinetics of methanolysis, metal ion catalysis, lanthanides, methanolysis of carboxylate esters and phosphate esters.


ChemInform ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
N. STRAETER ◽  
W. N. LIPSCOMB ◽  
T. KLABUNDE ◽  
B. KREBS

2015 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
pp. 601-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Stan Brown

Abstract Intense efforts by many research groups for more than 50 years have been directed at biomimetic approaches to understand how enzymes achieve their remarkable rate accelerations. Nevertheless, it was noted in 2003 that, despite numerous efforts to design models for catalyzing the cleavage of such species as phosphate diesters, “none of the several models so far described approaches the enormous catalytic efficiency of natural enzymes”. The same could be said for biomimetics of other enzymes promoting acyl or phosphoryl transfer reactions, particularly those mediated by metal ions such as Zn(II). Clearly other important factors were being overlooked or awaiting discovery. In this manuscript we describe two important effects that we have implemented to accelerate metal ion catayzed phosphoryl and acyl transfer reactions. The first of these relates to a medium effect where the polarity of the solution, as measured by dielectric constant, is reduced from that of water (ε = 78) to values of 31.5 and 24.3 when the solvent is changed to methanol or ethanol. Among organic solvents these light alcohols are closest to water in terms of structure and properties as well as retaining important H-bonding properties. The second important effect involves a known but difficult to demonstrate mode of catalysis where the leaving group (LG) in a solvolysis reaction is accelerated as it becomes progressively poorer. In the cases described herein, the LG’s propensity to depart from a substrate during the course of reaction is accelerated by coordination to a metal ion in a process known as leaving group assistance, or LGA. These two effects can each impart accelerations of 109–1017 for certain metal ion catalyzed reactions relative to the corresponding solvent, or base induced reactions.


1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (51) ◽  
pp. 13535-13536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason C. Hart ◽  
Ian H. Hillier ◽  
Neil A. Burton ◽  
David W. Sheppard

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